RE: Hell and the Play Nice Christian
February 18, 2015 at 8:35 pm
(This post was last modified: February 18, 2015 at 8:41 pm by The Reality Salesman01.)
(February 18, 2015 at 8:23 pm)Lek Wrote:(February 18, 2015 at 5:44 pm)The Reality Salesman Wrote: In Africa, where AIDS is one of the leading causes of death, I can say it's morally appalling when I hear that Catholic missionaries are teaching people of that country that condoms cause disease in order to prevent them from having safe recreational sex. They are telling people that AIDS is bad, but condoms are worse. That's the message they've interpreted from their God, and you've explicitly condoned this way of thinking as a path to a life that you believe to be more valuable than the earthly one we experience.
Come on. What's your source for this one?
http://m.bbc.com/news/world-africa-22449314
http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/africa/03/...roon.pope/
I think this new pope is changing his mind on this subject, but the point stands. People did harm to other people and they did it while operating under the belief that their inner voice was divine command.
Would you prefer that I refer to the protection of hundreds of pedophiles for the good of the church? The church they believe their God wants them to protect...there's really an endless supply of people doing these crazy things. The reason you can be catholic and still be disgusted is because of your individual moral compass. The same one that dismisses all the barbarism God ordered Moses to carry out. You do this because the morality in the bible comes from OUR intuition that recognizes the good from the bad. It has nothing to do with whomever you believed to have put them in there. No God needed.
